Ioanna-Veronika Warwick was born in Poland and came to this country when she was seventeen. She has published in numerous magazines, including New Letters (1989 New Letters Poetry Award), The Iowa Review, Southern Poetry Review, Quarterly West (First Prize, 1990 Writers-at-Work Fellowship Competition), The Ohio Review, The Black Warrior Review, and other magazines. Her translations from Polish poetry have appeared in APR, kayak, Wisconsin Review, and other magazines. She is currently enrolled in the MFA Program at San Diego State University.